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Definition: Abruptness |
AbruptnessNoun1. An abrupt discourteous manner. 2. The property possessed by a slope that is very steep. 3. The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abruptness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: AbruptnessSynonyms: brusqueness (n), curtness (n), gruffness (n), precipitance (n), precipitancy (n), precipitateness (n), precipitousness (n), shortness (n), steepness (n), suddenness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: gradualness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instantaneity | Noun: instantaneity, instantaneousness, immediacy; suddenness, abruptness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Vietnam | Vietnamese are typically used to the formality of corresponding in Vietnamese and the abruptness of some Western business correspondence can make them uncomfortable. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Abruptness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abruptness" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "abruptness": corrections for abruptness. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abruptness | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abruptness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrazhdësi (asperity, barbarity, brutality, clownery, crudity, harshness, incivility, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, truculence), rrëpirë (chute, escarpment, scar, scarp, steep), befasi (sharpness, suddenness, surprise). (various references) | |
Arabic | فجاءة, مباغتة (sally, surprise), عدم ترابط, شدة تحدر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разпокъсаност, внезапност (precipitance, suddenness), отсеченост (curtness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 突然 (Abrupt, Abruptly, shortly, sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Czech | příkrost (bluntness, brusqueness, steepness). (various references) | |
Danish | korrektioner for stejlhed (corrections for abruptness). (various references) | |
Dutch | abruptheid, steilte (precipice, steepness), steilheid (steepness), bruuskheid. (various references) | |
Finnish | äkillisyys (suddenness). (various references) | |
French | brusquerie. (various references) | |
German | Steilheit (rapidity, Sheerness, steepness), Schroffheit (asperity, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, sharpness, shortness, steepness, tartness), Plötzlichkeit (rapidity, suddenness, unexpectedness). (various references) | |
Greek | σκαιότητα (awkwardness, boorishness, rudeness, snippiness), βιαιότησ, απότομο (bluntness, brusqueness, cragginess), ταχύτησ (fleetness, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tempo, velocity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פתאומיות (suddeness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvariatlan modor, hirtelenség (dispatch, rapidity, rashness, suddenness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keterjalan (steepness), kekurangajaran (atrocity, boldness, brashness), kecuraman. (various references) | |
Italian | precipitazione (downfall, knockout, precipitation, rainfall). (various references) | |
Manx | geyrid (acidity, acridity, acuteness, austerity, definition, discernment, hardness, hardness of sound, incisiveness, intensity, keenness, mordacity, poignancy, pointedness, pungency, quickness of sight, rigidity, rigour of the law, sharpness, sourness, stiffness, strictness, stringency), doaltattymys (suddenness, unexpectedness), doaltattymid (suddenness, unexpectedness), cuttid (brevity, shortness, stumpiness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abruptnessay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aspereza (acerbity, asperity, harshness, poignancy, rub), rudeza, aspereza, indelicadeza, brusquidão, rudeza (acrimony, asperity, disrespect, rough, rudeness, rusticity), indelicadeza (broadness, incivility, indelicacy), declive (acclivity, cant, climbdown, declination, declivity, declivous, descent, downhill, hang, hillside, incline, lay, ramp, side, slant, slanting, slide, sloping, tilt, weathering), brusquidão (roughness). (various references) | |
Romanian | asprime (acerbity, acrimony, asperity, bitterness, callosity, callousness, coarseness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity, sharpness, sternness, stringency), discontinuitate (discontinuance, discontinuity), caracter brusc. (various references) | |
Russian | крутизна (ascent, precipitousness, slope, steep, steepness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | strmost (steepness), osornost (shortness), iznenadnost (suddenness). (various references) | |
Spanish | aspereza (acerbity, acridness, asperity, astringence, astringences, harshness, rawness, roughness, scragginess, sharpness, sourness, surliness, topmast), precipitación, brusquedad, pendiente (acclivity, bank, Bob, Catkin, clevis, descent, dip, drop, ear-drop, earring, grade, hanging, incline, outstanding, pendant, pendent, pending, pitch, slope, unsettled, upgrade), indelicadeza (indelicacy), escarpa (bluff, escarpment, pavement, scarp, slope). (various references) | |
Turkish | anilik (instantaneousness), tutarsızlık (contradictoriness, desultoriness, discrepancy, incoherence, inconsequence, inconsistency, repugnance, variable), kabalık (asperity, barbarism, barbarity, boorishness, brusqueness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disrespect, earthiness, gall, gothicism, gruffness, harshness, impolite behaviour, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, inelegance, loutishness, rankness, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, shortness, vulgarism, vulgarity), diklik (erectness, steepness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрімкість (ascent, impetuosity, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation), уривчастість, різкість (acerbity, acridity, acuteness, asperity, poignancy, raucity, sharpness), раптовість (suddenness), крутість (escarpment), грубість (asperity, barbarism, barbarity, broadness, brutality, callousness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudity, harshness, roughness, rusticity, shagginess, truculence), несподіванка (accident, clap, surprise, thunder-clap). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính lấc cấc (snippiness), sự vội vã tính cộc lốc, sự thô lỗ thế dốc đứng, sự hiểm trở, sự gian nan sự trúc trắc, sự bất ngờ (fortuity), sự đột ngột (rudeness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abruptness": abruptnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Abruptness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aboutness, abrutness, Tarbatness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abruptness" (pronounced ubru"ptnus) |
| 5 | -p t n u s | ineptness. |
| 4 | -t n u s | absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, appropriateness, astuteness, bluntness, brightness, compactness, completeness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, faintness, fastness, fitness, flatness, forthrightness, gauntness, greatness, inertness, lateness, lightfastness, lightness, neatness, politeness, quietness, remoteness, rightness, robustness, separateness, shortness, softness, steadfastness, stoutness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tightness, unpleasantness, vastness, wetness, whiteness, witness. |
| 3 | -n u s | aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, arbitrariness, assertiveness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, competitiveness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, fairness, farsightedness, fickleness, firmness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, riskiness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, tardiness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: abstruse, anestrus, pasterns, pastures, punsters, raptness, saunters, subparts, subpenas, subrents, unstraps, upstares, urbanest. | |
-3 letters: absents, abusers, aptness, arbutes, arpents, banters, basters, breasts, brunets, bunters, burnets, bursate, busters, butanes, entraps, natures, parents, pastern, pasters, pasture, patness, pausers, peanuts, petasus, punster, punters, repasts, rubasse, santurs, saunter, sparest, subnets, subpart, subpena, subrent, surbase, trepans, turbans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: abruptnesses, paintbrushes. | |
+3 letters: supercabinets. | |
+4 letters: subdepartments, superabsorbent. | |
+5 letters: superabsorbents. | |
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